Green chemistry (also called as sustainable chemistry) is an area of chemistry and chemical engineering which focuses on the designing of products and processes in order to minimize or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances and non-renewable feedstock. Chemistry has improved our quality of life, and developed number of products possible which are useful in our daily life, and also used as medicines to cure variety of diseases. Unfortunately, this achievement has come at the expense of our collective human health and the global environment is threatened. Today’s chemical industry relies almost entirely on non-renewable petroleum as the primary building block to create chemicals which are very energy intensive, inefficient, and toxic—resulting in significant energy use, and generation of hazardous waste. A transformation to green chemistry techniques will result in safer workplaces for industrial manpower, greatly reduced risks to fence line communities, safer products for consumers. The pharmaceutical industry will consume less raw materials and energy as well as save money on effluent disposal. It will also have a positive impact on current environmental condition and human health. The pharmaceutical sector is responsible for the development, production and marketing of medications. Thus, its immense importance as a global sector is inarguable. Globally the pharmaceutical industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in current scenario which utilizes and generates many hazardous chemicals to carry out the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients of drugs. Our research group is focused on green chemistry approach for designing new synthetic routes for drugs and their significant intermediates.

Green chemistry: A stratagem for hazardous chemicals in pharmaceutical industry

ACS Spring 2022

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